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Two substrates for medial forebrain bundle self-stimulation: myelinated axons and dopamine axons.

The directly activated substrates for medial forebrain bundle (MFB) self-stimulation are primarily low threshold, myelinated axons with absolute refractory periods of 0.4 to 1.2 msec, conduction velocities of 1 to 8 m/sec and current-distance constants of 1000 to 3000 microA/mm2. When small electrode tips or high currents are used, however, a second population of long refractory period (1.2 to 5 msec) axons is added. The excitability properties of this second population are almost identical with those of dopamine (DA) axons. Furthermore, the long-refractory period effects of MFB self-stimulation are reduced, but not completely blocked, by peripheral injections of alpha-flupenthixol, suggesting that dopamine axons make small contributions to MFB self-stimulation when small tips are used. Collision data, strength-duration data and refractory period data in various self-stimulation experiments are compared. Asymmetric collision effects, recently observed in cortical and striatal sites mediating electrically evoked turning, may help determine where synapses are located in circuits mediating electrically evoked behaviors. A neural model of symmetric, asymmetric and mixed collision is proposed.[1]

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